Campaigns Archives - Page 17 of 230

17Dec

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Campaigns, Education, Politics

50 million reasons to be mad at Facebook

Facebook failed to protect consumers from Cambridge Analytica. Only systemic changes can prevent that from happening again. BY MELISSA RYAN Sarah Wasko / Media Matters Tech companies have repeatedly failed to protect the consumers who use their platforms, and despite the outrage that arises when news of another failure breaks, remarkably little has been done to fix the problem. Consumers have been left to deal with fake news, predatory political ads, and data breaches largely on their own without assistance from companies, government, or other institutions. We’re dealing with systemic failures of the social media ecosystem, but the solutions offered largely call on individuals to sort out their online experience for themselves. This past weekend, a series of st...

17Dec

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Campaigns, USA

U.S.A: How the President and Neo-Nazis Work Hand in Hand

The alt-right would rather destroy liberal democracy before they allow people of color and women to gain political and social power. And Trump can't risk alienating them. by Melissa Ryan AP Images Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other members of the alt-right encircle counter-protesters at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 11, 2017. President Donald Trump had one job. On the morning of Saturday, August 12, Americans woke up to images of neo-Nazis wielding flaming tiki torches on the march in Charlottesville, Virginia. As the morning progressed, the news got even worse. A car plowed into a group of antiracist counter-protesters, killing ac...

15Dec

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Campaigns, United Kingdom, ZIO-NAZI

Thy are not your friends: UK Jews Welcome Resounding Defeat of Corbyn

UK Jews Welcome Resounding Defeat of Corbyn in British Election; ‘You Should Never Have to Live in Fear Again,’ They Are Told by Benjamin Kerstein Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves Islington Town Hall through the backdoor after a meeting following the results of the general election, Dec. 13, 2019. Photo: Reuters / Tom Nicholson. British Jews and their allies around the world are celebrating the decisive defeat of the Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour Party in Thursday’s parliamentary election. The far-left Corbyn — widely viewed by British Jews as an antisemite — said on Friday he planned to stand down as Labour leader following the party’s worst electoral loss in 84 years. Labour has been beset by a series of antisemitism scandals since Corbyn t...

13Dec

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Campaigns, United Kingdom

Devoid of agility, charisma and credibility, Corbyn has led Labour into the abyss

Polly Toynbee Yes, the manifesto was magnificent. But Corbyn has allowed his party to be riven by sectarianism, antisemitism and Brexit Fri 13 Dec 2019 The nightmare has happened. The worst of men is elected prime minister. The hardest of times lie ahead. Unfit in every way for any kind of office, Boris Johnson takes up the reins of absolute power bestowed on any leader with such a majority. Labour has been catapulted into conflict. That's not necessarily a bad thing Zoe Williams This blow has fallen on a country ravaged by a decade of decay in the public realm and a stagnant economy. We have become an embarrassment abroad. Brexit was the wicked weapon Johnson used to dethrone his last two leaders in order to lever himself into their place. Reckless in everythin...

12Dec

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Campaigns, United Kingdom

Deutsche Bank Breaks Down How Tomorrow’s Election Will Impact UK Markets

By Zero Hedge Global Research, A team of Deutsche Bank macro analysts led by Oliver Harvey has produced its latest note economic note about Brexit expounding on the bank’s near-to-medium-term view on the outlook for British markets. The bulk of the note is an examination of how the Conservative policy manifesto stacks up against Labour, while also examining how each party’s platform might impact longstanding economic trends in Britannia, including weak productivity (since the crisis, the UK has exhibited the most tepid productivity performance of any major economy, according to the OECD’s data)… …and a standard of living that hasn’t yet recovered to surpass its pre-crisis peak. And let’s not forget about taxes. Labour hopes to hike the capital gains tax on inv...

12Dec

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Campaigns, United Kingdom

British Elections: The Cause of Labour is the Hope of the World

By Dilma Rousseff, Yanis Varoufakis, Président de l'Équateur Rafael Correa, and et al. Former presidents, ministers, members of parliament, trade unionists, and political leaders from four continents sign an open letter explaining why the world needs a Labour government. *** We, the undersigned, express our solidarity with the Labour Party for today’s election in the United Kingdom. After a decade of austerity, the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister would send a message of hope across the world that a future of social justice is possible. A Labour victory would be an inspiration to millions fighting for a future beyond neoliberalism – one in which the interests of ordinary people could be advanced, our social fabrics restored and the domination of an economic...

11Dec

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Campaigns, Environment

The Grizzly Cost of Coexistence

by LOUISA WILLCOX Airedales to deter grizzly bears from coming into camp? This was one of several novel recommendations made at a recent meeting of Yellowstone grizzly bear managers in Cody, Wyoming, during a lively brainstorming session about ways to reduce human-bear conflicts. Another was establishing an academy where citizens could learn from each other by exchanging stories about successful coexistence with grizzly bears. Indeed, despite often polarized views about grizzly bear management at this and other meetings, people have tended to agree on the need to reduce conflicts and the means of going about it, including obvious measures such as being mindful in bear country and making sure that human foods are unavailable. Even as consensus emerged regarding method...

10Dec

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Campaigns, Politics, United Kingdom

The Demonization of Jeremy Corbyn

by TONY MCKENNA Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair For years, under the glitzy brand of ‘New Labour’ and its facile slogans of ‘modernisation’, the British Labour Party had been moving to the right. Encouraging people to get ‘filthy rich’, systematically reducing corporation tax, courting powerful press barons like Rupert Murdoch and committing to the type of bellicose foreign policy which would facilitate the death of hundreds of thousands in the bloody mire of Iraq. Inevitably, inexorably, Labour ceased to be ‘the party of dissent’ as its policies shaded seamlessly into the politics of the ruling elite more generally. The process reached its apogee in 2013 when the then Labour Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, made a particularly significant pledge. Although i...

10Dec

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Campaigns, Russia

BREXIT PARTY STANDS BY ISLAMOPHOBIC CANDIDATE IN BIRMINGHAM

Gregory Davis Brexit Party candidate Wendy Garcarz’s views have no place in our politics. Over the summer, a number of Brexit Party candidates were sacked or forced to resign after their deeply unpleasant views were unearthed on social media. There was Prabjhit Dhillon, who resigned after posts emerged that showed he supported a ban on Muslim immigration. Then there was Mark Nash, who was dropped by the party for saying Islam was a ‘cancer’ that should be ‘crushed out of existence’. But there are other candidates who have expressed similar views who remain in place and will be representing the Brexit Party in the upcoming election. Wendy Garcarz, the PPC for Birmingham Erdington, was revealed as having shared an alarmist post about Islam, one that co...

10Dec

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Campaigns, United Kingdom

EXPOSED: ISLAMOPHOBIA RIFE IN STAFFORDSHIRE BREXIT PARTY

Gregory Davis Brexit Party’s Stoke North candidate, Daniel Rudd (right) alongside Nigel Farage The party that promised to be ‘Intolerant of intolerance’ isn’t living up to its promises. When Nigel Farage joined the Brexit Party in January, it seemed clear that he was hoping to leave some of the baggage of his UKIP days behind, not least the constant stream of councillors, candidates and activists that were exposed for posting racist and bigoted material on social media. The Brexit Party, he claimed, would be “intolerant of all intolerance” and there was a “vast difference” between UKIP and the Brexit Party in terms of personnel – despite a large number of former UKIP candidates and activists defecting with him. But since then we have seen a number of Brexit Party ...